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Quirky, a sister project of Puppy Linux, was a Linux distribution built with a custom tool called Woof. The underlying infrastructure, such as boot-up and shut-down scripts, setup tools, hardware detection, desktop management, user interface, speed and general ease-of-use are common across all distributions built with Woof, but a specific build will have a different package selection and further customisation (even totally different binary packages). Quirky was developed by the founder of Puppy Linux and Woof to push the envelope a bit further, to explore some new ideas in the underlying infrastructure -- some of which may be radical or odd, hence the name Quirky.
Status: Discontinued
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2017-06-01 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Grml 2017.05 |
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The Grml distribution is a live disc based on Debian that includes tools for system administrators for detecting hardware, running tests and rescuing systems. The new version of the distribution, Grml 2017.05, switches from file-rc to systemd for the project's init software. This release also shifts the 32-bit build from i586 to i686. "Switch from file-rc to systemd as init system. grml-live (the build system for creating Grml-based Linux live systems) still supports non-systemd systems using file-rc, though we don't plan to maintain this in the long run. For the reasons why we actually switched to systemd please visit the FAQ. Due to the change to systemd some boot options in the current release might not work as before and some further issues might have been unnoticed yet. Please let us know if you should stumble upon any such issues. Following Debian's switch, the 32-bit PC support (known as the architecture 'i386' and what's provided by 'grml32') now no longer covers a plain i586 processor. The new baseline is the i686, although some i586 processors (e.g. the 'AMD Geode') will remain supported." The project's release notes contain a detailed list of changes since the previous version. Download: grml64-full_2017.05.iso (590MB, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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Grml is a bootable CD (live CD) based on Debian GNU/Linux. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of text tools and system administrators. It also provides automatic hardware detection. Grml can be used as a rescue system, for analysing systems and networks, or as a working environment. Due to on-the-fly decompression, Grml includes about 2 GB of software and documentation on the CD.
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2024-02-28 |
Distribution Release: Grml 2024.02 |
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Grml is a live distribution based on Debian. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of text tools and system administrators. The project's latest release, Grml 2024.02, runs on Linux kernel 6.6 and introduces several new options for the grml-live utility as well as zsh features. "Highlighting the most relevant changes only: grml-hwinfo - add inxi output and collect information about network devices via ethtool; grml-live (build system for creating Grml Linux live systems) - initial arm64 and aarch64 support; add support for Debian/Trixie (current Debian 'Testing'); use serial console with a setting of 115200n8 by default; update zsh completion and ship it via Debian package; unify boot options order between isolinux, syslinux and GRUB; improved memtest and chainloader handling; remove Grml release name from the boot options; miscellaneous software related changes in GRMLBASE, GRML_SMALL and GRML_FULL classes; zshrc - fixed outdated URL in weather function; /etc/skel/.zshrc - suggest J as global alias for jq usage; grml-debootstrap (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian) - initial arm64 support; add EFI support for VMs; don't install BusyBox any longer by default." Additional details can be found in the release notes. Download (pkglist): grml64-full_2024.02.iso (915MB, signature, torrent), grml64-small_2024.02.iso (508MB, signature, torrent). |
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2024-02-06 |
Development Release: Grml 2024.02 RC1 |
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Grml is a bootable CD (live CD) based on Debian GNU/Linux. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of text tools and system administrators. The project has published a release candidate which introduces a number of improvements and is based on Debian's Testing "Trixie" branch. "Highlighting the most relevant changes only: Misc: grml-hwinfo: add inxi output and collect information about network devices via ethtool. grml-live (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems): Initial arm64 / aarch64 support; add support for Debian/Trixie (current Debian/Testing); use serial console with a setting of 115200n8 by default; update zsh completion + ship it via Debian package; unify boot options order between isolinux/syslinux and GRUB; improved memtest + chainloader handling; remove Grml release name from the boot options; misc software related changes in GRMLBASE, GRML_SMALL + GRML_FULL classes. grml-zshrc (Zsh configuration): zshrc: fixed outdated url in weather function; /etc/skel/.zshrc: suggest J as global alias for jq usage." Additional information can be found in the project's release notes. Download: grml64-full_2024.02-rc1.iso (900MB, signature, pkglist). |
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2022-11-30 |
Distribution Release: Grml 2022.11 |
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Michael Prokop has announced the release of Grml 2022.11, a new stable release of the Debian-based distribution with a focus on the needs of system administrators: "Grml new stable release 2022.11 available. This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian 'bookworm'. As usual it also incorporates current hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases. Important changes: the Grml live system now uses the merged-/usr layout; updated Perl from 5.32 to 5.36; updated Python from 3.9 to 3.10; updated Ruby from 2.7 to 3.0. New features: grml-hwinfo - iterate over present disks to collect sfdisk -d information; grml-terminalserver - suggest a proper IP range usage when configuring DHCP clients; netcardconfig - avoid suggesting default gateway if a default route exists already; integration of Memtest86+ 6, providing UEFI support; support Memtest86+ with UEFI; support Debian 'bookworm'; support for ZFS via new ZFS FAI class; provide workaround for kmod/initramfs-tools issue with NFS/netboot; exclude /var/lib/dkms/* from Squashfs...." See the release announcement and the detailed release notes for additional information. Download (mirrors): grml64-full_2022.11.iso (855MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist), grml64-small_2022.11.iso (492MB, SHA256, torrent). Images for 32-bit (i686) processors are also available. |
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2021-07-26 |
Distribution Release: Grml 2021.07 |
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Michael Prokop has announced the release of Grml 2021.07, the latest stable build of the project's live Linux distribution focusing on the needs of system administrators. It is based on Debian's "testing" branch. "Grml - new stable release 2021.07 available. This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing ('bullseye'). As usual it also incorporates current hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release. Important changes: the Grml IRC channel moved to OFTC; the network configuration tool netcardconfig no longer prompts for uncommon wireless/WiFi options, to simplify and speed up its usage. New features: grml-terminalserver - support for UEFI PXE boot (now supporting BIOS boot via pxelinux and EFI boot via GRUB); netcardconfig - support for enabling blocked devices via rfkill; forensic mode - improved handling for block device changes and parent device handling; grml-chroot - support efivarfs in EFI environments...." Read the brief release announcement and the detailed release notes for further information. Download (mirrors): grml64-full_2021.07.iso (786MB, SHA512, torrent, pkglist), grml64-small_2021.07.iso (403MB, SHA512, torrent). Images built for 32-bit processors (i686) are also available. |
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2020-06-24 |
Distribution Release: Grml 2020.06 |
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Michael Prokop has announced the release of Grml 2020.06, a new version of the project's Linux distribution designed for system administrators, based on Debian's "testing" branch: "Grml - new stable release 2020.06 available. This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing ('bullseye'). As usual it also incorporates current hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release. Important changes: the default mount point for the live system was changed; tools like grml2usb, grml-paste and grml-x have been ported from Python 2 to Python 3 - we no longer support Python 2 in our tools; the live system no longer uses a custom Grml kernel - instead we switched to the 'linux-image' packages provided by Debian. New features: cloud-init support - a standard multi-distribution method for cross-platform cloud instance initialization; qemu-guest-agent support - this daemon exchanges information between the host and guest system; network information in grml-quickconfig - hostname, cloud-init, IP addresses and zeroconf/avahi information...." See the release announcement and release notes for a detailed description of this new release. Download (mirrors): grml64-full_2020.06.iso (747MB, SHA512, torrent, pkglist), grml64-small_2020.06.iso (352MB, SHA512, torrent). |
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2018-12-31 |
Distribution Release: Grml 2018.12 |
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Michael Prokop has announced the release of Grml 2018.12, a new version of the project's Debian-based Linux distribution focusing on the needs of system administrators: "So we did it again - we just released Grml 2018.12 'Gnackwatschn'. This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian 'Testing' which will be released as a stable Debian 'Buster' in 2019. As usual, it also incorporates current hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases. Important changes: when using the 'ssh' boot option, Grml automatically starts haveged, a userspace entropy daemon which uses HAVEGE (HArdware Volatile Entropy Gathering and Expansion); the cpufrequtils package with its loadcpufreq handling has been dropped. New features: netcardconfig - added support for VLAN configuration + non-interactive mode; grml-chroot - mount /dev/pts as devpts inside chroot; grml2usb - added support for Secure Boot...." Read the release announcement and release notes for a full list of new features. Download (mirrors): grml64-full_2018.12.iso (672MB, SHA512, signature, torrent, pkglist), grml64-small_2018.12.iso (313MB, SHA512, signature, torrent). |
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2017-05-09 |
Development Release: Grml 2017.05 RC1 |
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Grml is a Debian-based live disc for 32-bit and 64-bit x86 computers. The Grml distribution's latest development snapshot, Grml 2017.05-rc1, is based on Debian's Testing branch (code name "Stretch"). This release offers a number of small changes along with a transition from using file-rc to systemd for the distribution's init software. "Switch from file-rc to systemd as init system. grml-live (the build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems) still supports non-systemd systems using file-rc, though we don't plan to maintain this in the long run. For the reasons why we actually switched to systemd please visit the FAQ. Due to the change to systemd some boot options in the current release might not work as before and some further issues might have been unnoticed yet. Please let us know if you should stumble upon any such issues. New features: grml2usb - support usage of grml2usb on EFI systems, ew option --skip-usb-check to skip check whether target looks like a USB device, new option --rw-blockdev for usage with read-only/forensic like devices; grml-live - systemd support, providing backwards compatibility (non-systemd using file-rc) via FILE_RC class...." A complete list of changes can be found in the release notes. Download: grml64-full_2017.05-rc1.iso (589MB, signature, pkglist). |
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2014-11-18 |
Distribution Release: Grml 2014.11 |
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Michael Prokop has announced the release of Grml 2014.11, a Debian-based live CD featuring ZSH as the default shell and a large collection of specialist scripts for system administrators: "We just released Grml 2014.11 'Gschistigschasti'. This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian 'testing'. As usual it also incorporates up-to-date hardware support and it fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release. New features: new boot option getfile.retries=... - by specifying a number it controls the number of download retries for the netscript=...; grml2usb - improved check for boot flag, new option --skip-bootflag and Python 3 support; grml-quickconfig - display IP and password if SSH boot option is used; grml-lang - support language settings for Italy; grml-hwinfo: support i2c-tools's decode-dimms, edac-utils and mcelog; grml-zshrc - rework and unify $PATH handling...." See the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download: grml64-full_2014.11.iso (460MB, MD5, torrent), grml64-small_2014.11.iso (229MB, MD5, torrent). |
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